"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Mother Fvcker
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"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Bible_Belt
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With cattle, we call that "line-breeding." Brother and sister would be in-breeding, but line-breeding is a valid technique. The idea is that one line has just such great genes that you don't need any more genetic diversity to produce good offspring. Looking at the two of them, I'd guess their line could stand for a little genetic improvement, and thus line-breeding would not be ideal.
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Jeez, I wonder who's behind this agenda?
Top kekJeez, I wonder who's behind this agenda?
The world's population is to concentrated. This guy is so beta and the women are so picky that this man has to resort to sleeping with his own mother. What's next. I want to ride to stop.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
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I always love your posts man, but you tempt me to say poo in loo everytime, it's inevitable.Jeez, I wonder who's behind this agenda?
Back to topic. Yes, ****ing disgusting. What will we see before we die my fellow sosuavers...
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